David Woode
Crime Correspondent at The Times
Crime Correspondent @thetimes | [email protected]
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3 days ago |
thetimes.com | David Woode
A man in a cannabis-induced psychotic episode murdered a schoolboy with a samurai sword and tried to kill four others during a string of attacks in east London, a court was told. Marcus Monzo, 37, “killed and skinned his cat” before he allegedly started the 20-minute rampage shortly before 7am on April 30 last year. It began when he “deliberately drove” his grey Ford Transit van at speed into Donato Iwule as he walked to work at a local Co-op.
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4 days ago |
thetimes.com | David Woode
Weeks after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, a sophisticated heist unfolded in the basement of a museum in the southeastern city of Melitopol. A man cloaked in a lab coat, flanked by Russian soldiers, reportedly opened cardboard boxes and delicately removed some of the finest examples of goldsmithing antiquity dating back 2,300 years. Chief among them was a gold Scythian helmet, originating from the 4th century and believed to be worth millions of dollars.
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5 days ago |
thetimes.com | David Woode
Two people have died after allegedly overdosing on super-strong synthetic opioids following a night out, the first deaths of British clubbers that experts link to the drug. A 28-year-old man and a woman aged 20 are believed to have consumed nitazenes after visiting a nightclub in south London over the spring bank holiday weekend. Nitazenes, a newer class of synthetic opioid, can be hundreds of times stronger than heroin.
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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | David Woode
Within hours of the London Drug Commission (LDC) recommending the decriminalisation of small amounts of cannabis for personal use, questions about how it could relieve pressure on squeezed policing resources were quickly stubbed out.
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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | Charlotte Alt |David Woode
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RT @thetimes: 🗣️ 'If someone pulled a knife on me... at least I'd have a fighting chance' 'Marcus' was 14 when he first carried a knife he'…
RT @thetimes: 🗣️‘ A weapon in the hands of someone stupid is the most dangerous thing’ ‘Marcus’ was 14 when he decided he needed to get a…
Why do some young men carrying knives? Marcus*, who was 14 when he got a knife off Snapchat, said: "Maybe they’ve lost someone close to them to violence. They feel the need to protect themselves. They fear their parents will have to bury them." @thetimes https://t.co/SD3xz4TcYM